Groceries for a small, rural community in the U.S. heartland.
Today’s featured photo is a far-flung departure from my usual choices from around the Pacific Northwest. Here is an image from several years ago when I drove from Seattle, WA to Sparta, NC and back by myself to visit family. On my return trip home I swung a bit south to travel through the beautiful state of Nebraska, to see Wolbach, the town where my dad was born in 1914. The early morning bright sunshine was already hot and the inside of this small grocery was a welcome retreat from the heat for this NW girl. Wolbach was a small town one hundred years ago, and is still, with a population of 238. I’m sharing this shot to feature the home state of two of my blogger friends, Nancy @ ‘A Rural Journal,’ and Michaele @ ‘Sprout ‘n’ Wings Farm.’ I thoroughly enjoy their blogs…
Sharing this rural image this morning with ‘Rural Thursday Blog Hop #4.’
Cute little storefront there!
This is so nice Madge. I do love this kind of images.
It’s a tiny little snippet of time gone by :).
The deteriorating curb and sidewalk look very similar to some around my part of the world. I’m wondering if that little store is still there. Wal-Mart in the rural South, and I’m sure elsewhere, has claimed the demise of lots of little mom and pop places but on the other hand has brought better shopping conditions, greater selections, and jobs to small outlying communities.
oh, that is cool! i know nancy likes this!
I love these small grocery stores. Unfortunately, something that is very rare these days. It must have been wonderful to see the little town that your Father came from. Thanks for sharing and also for the links to some great blogs. xx
i love this…i would sooo shop there!
What a cute little store!
That’s so funny — I was saying to myself, “that looks like something you’d see in Nebraska…” Thanks for posting this, Madge. :)
That is not the kind of window display one would expect from a grocery store!
I also feature a grocery store today – it is now normally a big box store, but I found one of the original small town style local variety.
This is wonderful! We used to have stores around here like that but they are long gone. I so wish those days were back! Thanks for sharing this!
Funny – before I even read beneath the photo, I thought that looked like something I would see around here, not WA. Every little town has these mom and pop stores : )
That is awesome! Not your every day looking store.
The small town grocery store. We have lots of small towns here in Saskatchewan with 200 people or less. Sometimes I wonder how they can stay in business but I’m sure the local people appreciate them still being there!
Have a Happy weekend Madge!
xo Catherine
great lines in this photo. i love walking to a store instead of taking the car to a mall.